Has he come to his senses, or, some ulterior motive?
Bill Gates makes a stunning claim about climate change
In a stunning and significant pushback to the “doomsday” climate activist community, Bill Gates, a leading proponent for carbon emissions reductions, published a remarkable essay Tuesday that argued resources must be shifted away from the battle against climate change.
Instead, Gates argues, the world’s philanthropists must increase their investment in other efforts aimed at preventing disease and hunger.
Climate change is not going to wipe out humanity, he argued, and past efforts that strive for achieving zero carbon emissions have made real progress. But Gates said that past investments fighting climate change have been misplaced, and too much good money has been put into expensive and questionable efforts.
He’s not wrong on that. How much has been utterly wasted in doing cult things, which could have been used for, say, real environmental concerns? How much time has been wasted? Resources misdirected?
The Trump administration’s funding cuts, Gates argues, necessitate an immediate and larger focus on investment and resources to support those abandoned efforts.
“Although climate change will have serious consequences – particularly for people in the poorest countries – it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote. “This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.”
Obviously, this is not going over well in Cult World
And Mann is tame compared to some of the stuff I’m seeing, calling Gates a traitor, saying he should be executed, and more.
Gates denied his new position represents a reversal from his past stances. He said in Tuesday’s essay that the world must continue to support its past efforts to achieve zero carbon emissions.
If you read it, Gates has not stopped being a card carrying member of the cult, he’s just realizing that the cult needs to be less cult, and there are other more worthy things to spend time and money and resources on. It’s the whole theory vs practice argument: most cultists/Warmists are happy to yap about Doing Something in theory, but, when it is their own lives and money they aren’t interested in practice.
Will Bill apologize? Or, is there something else going on?
Gates has cozied up to King Donald, but also realizes that it’s a lost cause.
The Earth will continue to warm, a result of the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, a breakdown product of burning high carbon coal, gas and oil.
We will just have to adjust as Gates claims.
No, global warming will not end humanity, but we will have to adapt.
Care to offer proof that it’s all “atmospheric CO2” from man’s activities?
Even you could look it up.
Atmospheric CO2 has increased from about 280 ppm in 1900 to over 420 ppm today. As you know as a scientist, there are 3 isotopes of carbon, 12C (99%), 13C (rare and preferred by plants), 14C (rare, radioactive, 5700 year half-life).
Hundreds of millions of years ago, plants incorporated atmospheric CO2 to form the carbohydrates that made up the plants! The incorporated 14C would have long decayed by now and sure enough atmospheric 14C concentration has decreased as if the “new” CO2 came from the fossil fuels.
Another fallacy offered as “proof” by the Rimjob.
He does like to ignore other natural causes for the warming.
Keep trying, kid.
Wasn’t the distinguished Mr Gates the one who said we had to solve the problem of cow farts?
there are other more worthy things to spend time and money and resources on
Things that actually kill people or at least destroy fertility
Funny that Gates change of heart coincided with the hundreds of billions cut from USAID by the current administration.
It’s a little different tune when one starts having to shell out their own money.
Bwaha! Lolgf Losers!
MAGA47 – It Was Never About The Climate!